Education
| year | what |
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| 2019 — 2021 | MA in Psychology, University of Southern California Advisor: Hok Chio (Mark) Lai Thesis: Incorporating Uncertainty in Design Parameters: A Hybrid Classical-Bayesian Power Analysis Approach for Two-Level Cluster Randomized Trials) |
| 2015 — 2018 | BA in Psychology, University of British Columbia Advisor: Victoria Savalei Graduate Student Advisor: Cathy Xijuan Zhang) |
Awards & Fellowships
| year | what |
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| 2021 — 2022 | Spencer Foundation (USD $49,796), University of Southern California. Role: Graduate Research Assistant |
| 2018 | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) (CAD $12,900), University of British Columbia. Conducted online due to the corona pandemic |
Publications
| year | number | citation |
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| 2021 | J1 | |
| 2019 | J2 |
Conference presentations
| year | number | what |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | P1 | Tse, W.W.-Y. & Lai, M. H. C. (Sep 26, 2021). Sample size determination in the presence of uncertainty: A hybrid classical-Bayesian approach for two-level cluster randomized trials [Paper Session]. Annual Conference of the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, Arlington, VA, United States. Schedule |
| P2 | Tse, W.W.-Y. & Lai, M. H. C. (Aug 12, 2021). A Bayesian approach to power analysis and sample size planning for cluster randomized trials [Poster Session]. Virtual conference at the American Psychological Association (APA) Annual Convention due to covid-19. |
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| P3 | Tse, W.W.-Y. & Lai, M. H. C. (Jul 20, 2021). Incorporating uncertainty in design parameters: A hybrid classical-Bayesian power analysis approach for two-level cluster randomized trials [Paper Session]. Virtual conference at the Annual Meeting of the Psychometric Society (IMPS) due to covid-19.. Schedule |
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| P4 | Cardenas, S.I., Tse, W.W.-Y., & Saxbe, D.E. (Apr 29, 2021). Prenatal and postpartum testosterone synchrony in first time parents: Links with suboptimal relationship functioning and enhanced parenting outcomes [Paper Session]. Virtual conference at the meeting of Western Psychological Association due to covid-19. |
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| 2020 | P5 | Tse, W.W.-Y. & Lai, M. H. C. (Jul 14, 2020). Measurement Invariance for Ordered Categorical Variables: The Necessity of Strict Invariance for Valid Group Comparisons [Poster Session]. Annual Meeting of the Psychometric Society (IMPS). Schedule |
| P6 | Tse, W.W.-Y. & Lai, M. H. C. (Jun 25, 2020). Measurement Invariance for Ordered Categorical Variables: The Necessity of Strict Invariance for Valid Group Comparisons [Paper Session]. A Meeting of Methodologies (AMOM). Slides |
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| P7 | Tse, W.W.-Y. & Lai, M. H. C. (Jun 2, 2020). Path to valid means comparisons: The necessity of strict measurement invariance for ordered categorical variables [Poster Session]. Conference canceled due to Covid-19. |
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| 2017 | P8 | Tse, W.W.-Y., Zhang, X., & Savalei, V. (Apr 1, 2017). Examining the Order Effects in Psychological Scales in the Expanded Format [Poster Session]. Psychology Undergraduate Research Conference, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC. |
Teaching experience
| year | what |
|---|---|
| 2021 | Guest Lecturer, Multilevel Modeling (PSYC 575), University of Southern California Statistical foundations and tools for sample size planning in multilevel studies. Course Materials. |
| Co-instructor, Advancing Quantitative Sciences With Monte Carlo Simulation, British Psychological Society Monte Carlo Simulation on Structural Equation Modeling using the SimDesign Package in R. Course Materials. |
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| 2019 | Teaching assistant, Statistics (PSYC 271), University of Southern California Statistical methods for psychological research, including t-tests, ANOVA, and regressions, with SPSS and R |
Service
| year | what |
|---|---|
| 2019 | Ad-hoc Reviewer Alcohol and Alcoholism |
| 2020 | Ad-hoc Reviewer Asian American Journal of Psychology |
Computer skills
Statistics: R, SPSS, Stata, SAS, Mplus, Julia
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SEM: R (
lavaan), Mplus -
Multilevel: R (
lme4), Mplus -
Bayesian: R (
brms,Rstan,Rjags)
Database: SQL
Document preparation: LaTeX, RMarkdown (bookdown, pagedown, blogdown), MS Excel, Word, Powerpoint
Frontend: HTML, CSS, JavaScript